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Mighty Casey Presents: The Case For Obama

This is a multi-part series since it's too long for you yentas to stay awake in one setting. So I'll be back when you all have been informed to fuck all that shit up.


I know a lot of people are cynical about voting. People have felt disenfranchised by the political system and powerless to the changes the government makes. However votes are extremely important, you might no be able to see the results right away but they matter a lot in the long term. People sacrificed and died so that black people could have the right to vote. Voting determines what money is spent where, our foreign policy, and the direction of our country. In the US voting not only counts for what happens here at home but what happens abroad as well. While the millions of Iraqis, Palestinians, Kenyans, Sudanese and people all over the world are affected by the foreign policy of America they have no influence on it. It's our duty as citizens of the world to use our votes to end genocide, oppression, war and the destruction of our environment. Malcolm X said there are two alternatives to social and political change the ballot or the bullet. So if pissed off about what’s going on and you ain’t busting your gun the least you can do is vote. Peter Tosh (prolly someone b4 him too) said that if you’re not part of the solution, then your part of the problem. So all those who claim they hate the government, but don’t vote your part to end the oppression and injustice that the government brings both get your gun and get gully or vote with the rest of us. I realize that b4 we have not had 2 many viable candidates but I always have voted for the lesser of 2 evils with the hope that there may eventually be a good candidate (and maybe there is)


Why You should vote for Obama

My mother gave me Barrack Obama’s book, Dreams of My Father, in 2004. I found it to be an interesting and good read. He was open an honest about his drug use in the past (admitted he inhaled), talked about growing up mixed with a Kenyan Father and white mother and the racism and discrimination he had to face. He also talked about his time at Columbia University and how he changed form a party type to a workaholic. He went on to Harvard Law School where he became the 1st African American to be the editor of the Harvard Law Journal (most prestigious law journal in America Rather than taking a 6 figure corporate job on wall street as many Harvard Law school graduates, he worked as a community organizer in Chicago working with underprivileged youth and layed off steel workers. Soon after he worked as a lawyer in Chicago before being elected to the state senate, advocating for the poor minority community he was representing, going on to become the 1st black senator since reconstruction. So he is intelligent and qualified enough to hold the position.

Obama’s charisma and ability to move and motivate people is undeniable to. He has the ‘swagger’ of a Jay-Z, Kennedy, Denzel or Sinatra which commands peoples respect and attention and is an excellent attribute for a leader. He has the speaking ability of a MLK or JFK, both of whom managed to inspire and change a nation. One of the main reasons to support Barrack Obama is to discredit the past 8 years of the Bush administration. Of all the presidential candidates besides Ron Paul, Obama is the only one on record opposing the war before it started. Obama’s speech outlined what we all no today, that we were being conned into an unnecessary war with unknown consequences. He made the speech at a time when support for George Bush and the war was at an all time high, risking his political career. Hillary Clinton voted for the war, never spoke out against it allowing millions of Iraqi deaths, and thousands of dead American soldiers with many more wounded. Even today as recently as last week Hillary was on MTV defending her vote to go to war in Iraq giving the same bush Cheney rhetoric on how he was a threat…blah blah. Senators Edwards, Kerry and Dodd all have admitted that voting for the war was a mistake (Edwards even said it was the biggest mistake of his life). We should have learned from Bush that a leader who cannot admit their mistakes and learn from them is not a good leader to have. During Clinton’s 8-year stay in the senate has she once stood up against, the war, torture, Guantanamo Bay, warrantless wire-tapping? Not only has the war cause the destruction of human life and the country of Iraq creating havoc in the Middle East but it has cost use countless money more than 300 Billion. Do you know how many schools could be built, roads fixed, college tuitions, people fed with 300 Bill? Maybe if the National Guard was in Louisiana where they should’ve been, instead of Iraq, countless lives could have been saved and homes restored. I knew the case for war was bullshit, all my friends new the case for war was bullshit most crackheads on my block new the case was bullshit, so why couldn’t Hillary.



Since the media is so quick to divide the country into different demographics I will try and encourage people from all those demographics on why they should vote for Obama.

To be continued...

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